[steve8714]

Greatest hockey player ever. Gordie Howe hat trick? A goal, an assist, and a fight. Gretsky never.

[Alberta's Child]

I think of Gordie Howe as the Hank Aaron of hockey ... amazing career numbers, but a career with a few strange statistical anomalies.

For example ... it's amazing that a guy like Howe could score 801 goals in his career, yet he never scored 50 in a single season.

Truly a legend of the game, though. He will be missed, and mourned across Canada much like Maurice Richard was a few years ago.